2 oddities at Council meeting

by Ari Herzog on May 12, 2008

I’ll rely on the press to report and follow-up on issues raised at tonight’s City Council meeting, but I noticed two oddities:

Councilor Steve Hutcheson, who owns Off the Wall with his wife Vicki, abstained from voting (known locally as a voice vote of “present”) when the Council was asked to approve a chocolate tour next weekend as their business will participate; but Councilor James Shanley did not specify any abstention when reading and approving a proclamation to celebrate Newburyport Preservation Week despite his wife, Karen Battles, being the “vice president of the Newburyport Preservation Trust” &mdash if this Newburyport Current story from March is to be believed.
What’s with the entire School Committee attending this meeting when they weren’t included in this week’s schedule of public meetings?

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